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From: stuart <STUART-AT-uriah.law.mq.edu.au>
Date:         30 Jan 95 14:41:37 GMT+1000
Subject:      New Book on Aboriginal Australia


VOICES OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA:
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

Compiled by Irene Moores
for the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee

A collection of essays, speeches, poetry, articles, interviews, etc.,
mainly by Aborigines, on topics of racism, discrimination, justice &
the law, social conditions, land rights etc. for Australian
Aboriginal people.  Includes specific topics e.g. nuclear testing at
Maralinga, deaths in custody, Aurukun, Provisional Government,
Freedom Ride, 1938 Day of Mourning, Aboriginal Tent Embassy,
attempted genocide & Mabo decision of the High Court in 1993; poems
by the late Oodgeroo and the late Kevin Gilbert.

"Aboriginal voices are speaking out more and more and louder and
louder, and we all need to listen.  Irene Moores has put together a
very important collection of black voices at a critically important
time in our history."  -- David Horton, General Editor, Encyclopaedia
of Aboriginal Australia.

available from:
Butterly Books
Box 107
Springwood N.S.W. 2777
Australia
fax 61 47 51-6055, tel 61 47 51-5262

ISBN 0 947333 69 X
Paperback, 500 pp approx
PRICE: approx $19.95Australian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stuart Russell                      Stuart-AT-uriah.law.mq.edu.au
School of Law                       fax (61)(2) 850-7686
Macquarie University                tel (61)(2) 850-7861
North Ryde N.S.W. 2109
AUSTRALIA                           "Ce n'est qu'un debut!"

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